Sports and Health Development

The Sports and Health Development Team provide a professional service of sports coaching, health and fitness development throughout the district all year round.

The team's aim is to encourage and increase participation in sport and physical activity and promoting health and wellbeing opportunities for all ages. It aims to enable all sections of the community to have access to a wide range of high quality sports, leisure and health provision.

The programme consists of courses, classes and projects run at a varierty of times and locations, including school based, after school, evening, weekends and school holidays.

For a list of all the current activities click on the link below:

• Courses, Classes And Events

• Volunteering Opportunities
  
  -  Assistant Athletics Coach - Loughton Athletics Club
  -  Assistant Multi Sports Coach - All Ability Trampolining Club
  -  Dyspraxia Programme Assistant - Epping Sports Centre
  -  Funding Officer - EF District Swimming Club
  
  -  Marketing & Press Officer - EF District Swimming Club
  -  WDDB Assistant - We Don't Do Bored Club
  

• Volunteer with Sports and Health Development

• Volunteering Support for Clubs

A major part of our work is delivered in conjunction with a number of key partners including Epping Forest College, Essex County Cricket Board, Essex County Council, Essex FA, Lambourne End Outdoor Centre, Local Sports Clubs and Schools, SLM Ltd, Sportessex, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Voluntary Action Epping Forest, West Essex Primary Care Trust and West Essex School Sports Partnership.

Contact Details

You can contact James Warwick, Sports Development Manager:
• by telephone on 01992 564350
• by email to jwarwick@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

You can contact James Carstairs, Sports Development Officer:
• by telephone on 01992 564567
• by email to jcarstairs@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

Sports and Fitness Programmes

You can contact Fabrizio Ferrari, Assistant Sports Development Officer:
• by telephone on 01992 564220
• by email to fferrari@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

Active Health Programme

You can contact David Hogg, Active Health Development Officer:
• by telephone on 01992 564269
• by email to dhogg@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

Lifewalks Programme

You can contact Karen Williams, Lifewalks Co-ordinator:
• by telephone on 01992 564222
• by email to kwilliams@eppingforestdc.gov.uk

New Horizons 50+ Programme

You can contact Hettie Williamson, New Horizons Trips Co-ordinator:
• by telephone on 01992 564216 (between 10:30am and 1:30pm Monday  to Thursday)

• Download New Horizons 50+ Leisure Activities and Trips for April 2010 to March 2011 (pdf 2.9MB)